Sentence examples for practically over from inspiring English sources

The night's practically over by then".

And there you are, your life practically over, and for what?

There was a time if Chelsea were 1 0 up that a game was practically over, especially at Stamford Bridge.

Now that he's here, now that the waiting's practically over, he enjoys prolonging the excitement of moving toward the moment he's been waiting for.

(Isherwood) Off Off Broadway 'A Felony in Blue, or Death by Poker' Daniel Gallant's drama about an unusually high-stakes poker game among five mob bosses chugs along and is practically over before it starts.

"It was spontaneous enthusiasm, a sense of not wanting to be the last one in the game, when the whole thing was practically over," he recalled more than six decades later, when asked about the decision to sign up.

I was thumbing through the book one afternoon and noticed that Rombauer, a Midwesterner normally extremely reticent with compliments, had described this recipe as "delicate and good" — that's practically over-the-top gushing for her.

"I practically fell over," he said.

We have to practically start over from scratch".

Schools are practically tripping over one another to get their students to far-flung locales.

He's practically bubbling over with ideas, and that creates an infectious excitement.